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Example sentences for: dire

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Despite the controversy, most agree that the large predators, particularly sharks, skates, rays, and marlin, are in the most dire straits.
While the Star has a story titled "Fabulous Farrah shows she's still got it--at 52," it also reports that Fawcett is in such dire financial straits that she's had to cut back her gardener's visits from five to three times a week.
Too many times, the West has threatened dire consequences and then done nothing.
California lags far behind comparable states in funding legal services for the poor, a situation so dire that only 28 percent of the civil legal needs of the state's poor and lowerincome residents are being addressed.
A piece dampens enthusiasm about recent rises in Asia's stock markets: Asian economies are still in dire shape and governments are not doing nearly enough to restore fiscal stability.